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Dark Command (1940) Quotes with Sound Clips

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The best quotes from the movie Dark Command (1940), as ranked by our visitors, with short audio clips.

Actors: Claire Trevor (Mary McCloud), John Wayne (Bob Seton), Walter Pidgeon (Will Cantrell)

3 more actors, George "Gabby" Hayes (Doc), Marjorie Main (Mrs. Cantrell), Roy Rogers (Fletch)

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1 I'm going clear up to the top. But I'm not going for the climb or the view.

— Will Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon)

2 Gentlemen, pain and torture are grim bedfellows.

— Will Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon)

3 Don't know what lovely country really is till you've seen Texas in the springtime.

— Bob Seton (John Wayne)

4 Folks, this country has more laws than there are ways to skin a skunk. Thousands of 'em. Why, back east, they tell me there's a law against spittin'.

— Bob Seton (John Wayne)

5 I can't read or write, you know that. -Listen, you don't read and write a man into jail.

— Will Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon)

6 Learning, studying, working like a dog. And what does it get me? First chance I have to be somebody, I'm beaten out of it by an ignorant cowhand who can't even write his own name.

— Will Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon)

7 Oh. We got a sayin' down in Texas, ma'am, about countin' your chickens before they're hatched.

— Bob Seton (John Wayne)

8 Yeah. First time I ever had two kinds of bird with one meal: turkey to eat and buzzard to look at.

— Bob Seton (John Wayne)

9 I'll show you fellas more liquor than you ever saw before.

— Will Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon)

10 Now that's the right order in which things are done in Texas.

— Bob Seton (John Wayne)

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